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Added: 1st September 2014

BARC SEC: OK green flags – lets go: how did your adventurewith motorsport get started?Sean Fairweather: I knew at 10 that all I really wanted to do was race cars. Already pursuing the thrill of driving (yes I was only ten10 years old) and witnessing the local road race event... read more

Added: 22nd July 2014

BARC SEC: OK green flags – lets go: how did your adventure with motorsport get started?Joshua Darton: 2014 is my first season of Motorsport, finding it a steep learning curve but very enjoyable...read more

Added: 25th June 2014

BARC SEC: OK green flags – lets go: how did your adventure with motorsport get started?Tristam Barden: I started racing in 1991 in a Mini on Autograss, in my first ever race I hit a Skoda up the back and then I crashed through the fence in the farmer’s field... read more

Added: 10th June 2014

BARC SEC: OK green flags – lets go: how did your adventure with motorsport get started?Andrew Gibbons: I only started racing in 2013 after getting the bug doing track days in our MK2 RS2000. My first involvement with motorsport was maintaining the Orange Cosworth... read more

Added: 2nd June 2014

BARC SEC: OK green flags – lets go: how did your adventure with motorsport get started?Chris Bassett: It began with bikes at the age of 7. Our local track then shut down after someone was killed and it left us with nowhere to go. My step dad has always been involved in motorsport... read more

Added: 22nd May 2014

BARC SEC: OK green flags – lets go: how did your adventure with motorsport get started?Ian Conibear: Bought a seven type car in 2002 which lead me into track days, then started sprinting in 2004, but soon got the bug and... read more

Added: 20th April 2014

BARC SEC: OK green flags – lets go: how did your adventurewith motorsport get started?Robert Taylor: Was always interested in racing as used to go and watch my Dad when he was racing Stock Cars in the 60's/70's. Got the bug again watching a friend in Stock Hatch... read more

Added: 9th April 2014

BARC SEC: OK green flags – lets go: how did your adventurewith motorsport get started?Philip Blackford: In Stock Rods on the ovals, only occasionally from around 2000 and then a brief spell in 2Litre Hot Rods then Silhouettes / Intermarque... read more

Added: 1st March 2014

BARC SEC: OK green flags – lets go: how did your adventure with motorsport get started?Keith White: Banger racing an Austin Westminster in 1973 at Charterhouse track in Somerset...read more

Graham Bahr, BMW E30 driver in the QMN Saloon Championship.

Added: 17th February 2014

BARC SEC: OK green flags – lets go: how did your adventure with motorsport get started?Graham Bahr: The First MSA sanctioned, as opposed to racing round London and track day stuff, was a sprint at Lydden Hill in 2000, first circuit race was at Silverstone in 2002... read more

Added: 10th February 2014

BARC SEC: OK green flags – lets go: how did your adventure with motorsport get started?Graham Richardson: Always been interested in cars father had a car hire business so in the garage as a kid, drove my dad's Hillman minx to Margate at 14 yrs it was legal then! Sort of... read more

Added: 2nd February 2014

BARC SEC: OK green flags – lets go: how did your adventure with motorsport get started?Ben Taylor: I did 4 races in the MX5 championship in 2006 so very little and this year I raced national hot rods for 8 Meetings...read more

Added: 15th January 2014

BARC SEC: OK green flags – lets go: how did your adventure with motorsport get started?Gavin Thomson: I was surrounded by cars from a young age and was taken to Brands Hatch before I could walk. My Dad use to race on ovals regularly at Arena Essex while I was growing up. I started out quite late... read more

Added: 5th January 2014

BARC SEC: OK green flags – lets go: how did your adventure get started?Kieron Lehane: As a youngster of about 10 – 12 years old, I used to help a team at Motorbike Sidecar Grasstrack racing. Then when I was about 18, I started Karting & it went from there... read more

8 reindeer powered sleigh driver... Father Christmas!!

Added: 25th December 2013

BARC SEC: OK green flags – lets go: how did your adventure get started?Father Christmas: All because of a certain person being born on December 25th. Gets very busy at this time of year trying to visit every circuit in the country... read more

Added: 16th December 2013

BARC SEC: OK green flags – lets go: how did your adventure with motorsport get started?Richard Smith: With my uncles Gordon and Jeff Scott both racing hot rods. In those days Ford Anglias and Mk1 Escorts and drivers Lee Polley and Collard - now known as the Nationals, My first car was...
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Added: 19th November 2013

BARC SEC: OK green flags – lets go: how did your adventure with motorsport get started?Robert Farndon: I went to Brands Hatch (Race of Champions F1) when I was 16 as a spectator and was hooked on Motorsport!
I raced Karts in the late 1980's. Spent a lot of time at Brands, as a spectator... read more

Added: 22nd October 2013

BARC SEC: OK green flags – lets go: how did your adventure with motorsport get started?Stephen Dann: After several years of watching Rod Birley racing I decided to try sprinting, after winning the ASEMC championship and a class wins....read more

Added: 11th October 2013

BARC SEC: Ok green flags – lets go: how did your adventure with motorsport get started?Jon Wild: Invited on a track day with Harry Lindfield. Later met Ken Angel after he recovered what was left of my first race car....read more

Added: 3rd September 2013

BARC SEC: Ok green flags – lets go: how did your adventure with motorsport get started?Neil Jessop: I spent my teens watching oval racing at Arlington and eventually started racing bangers in 1998. I progressed through several
formulas... read more

Added: 20th August 2013

BARC SEC: Ok green flags – lets go: how did your adventure with motorsport get started?Chris Whiteman: My brother Brian started banger racing in the 1970s, so I helped him along with my twin brother Denny. When Brian joined the Bexley Suicide squad I decide to have a go... read more

Added: 10th August 2013

BARC SEC: Ok green flags – lets go: how did your adventure with motorsport get started?Chris Brockhurst: My dad was always involved in some sort of motorsport so I've always been around racing...read more

Added: 2nd August 2013

BARC SEC: OK green flags – lets go: how did your adventure with motorsport get started?Ricky Davies: Always been into racing/Karting from a young age, but really its down to my Uncle Craig - a few years ago he got back into racing...read more

Added: 24th July 2013

BARC SEC: OK green flags – lets go: how did your adventure with motorsport get started?Tom Bridger: Been brought up around motorsport my whole life watching my dad race, always wanted to have a go myself from a young age...read more

Added: 12th July 2013

BARC SEC: OK green flags – lets go: how did your adventure with motorsport get started?John Chasey: Did a racing course at Silverstone, caught the bug and built a Caterham from a kit. Still racing that same car, albeit with some modifications. Generally manage to... read more

Added: 5th July 2013

BARC SEC: OK green flags – lets go: how did your adventure with motorsport get started?Stewart Hutchinson: Started work at 17 at a motorbike shop and the owner did a bit of Historic racing in a Honda S800…..I was hooked ! Eventually got my own S800 and started racing in the HSCC in 1989... read more

Added: 27th June 2013

BARC SEC: OK green flags – lets go: how did your adventure with motorsport get started?Ross Craig: Grew up travelling down to Castle Combe with my Dad racing a BMW before travelling the country running the same car. When he bought a new car, I started doing trackdays... read more

Added: 20th June 2013

BARC SEC: Ok green flags – lets go: how did your adventure with motorsport get started?Ray Harris: My Dad was racing before I was even born so I was always around the tracks, and making my toy cars into bangers in the garage with his hammer... read more

Added: 9th June 2013

BARC SEC: Ok green flags – lets go: how did your adventure with motorsport get started?Nick Proudlock: Age 12 in a mechanics race driving a KFC sponsored A40 at Angmering grasstrack club which is now the Oval racing Club, I later raced a 105E in the juniors when I was 13 (min age)... read more

Added: 26th May 2013

BARC SEC: Ok green flags – lets go: how did your adventure with motorsport get started?Russell Humphrey: Grew up around the ovals with dad racing Stock cars, Superstox, Hot rods and finally Super rods. My career started at Standlake arena in a Mini in the Prods then Autotesting... read more

Added: 19th May 2013

BARC SEC: Ok green flags – lets go: how did your adventure with motorsport get started?Lee McNair: I have always been around cars what with my dad and uncles being car mad. I bought an unfinished racing Mini with my dad and good friend Phil Anning which we rebuilt
then shared... read more

Added: 12th May 2013

BARC SEC: Ok green flags – lets go: how did your adventure with motorsport get started?Peter Osborne: Used to help a friend out in Formula Ford and always used to go off and watch the saloon cars...read more

Added: 26th April 2013

BARC SEC: Ok green flags – lets go: how did your adventure with motorsport get started?Andy Woods-Dean: Both my Mum and Dad raced on small ovals in the 70's and 80's so I was exposed to motorsport from a very early age... read more

Added: 30th March 2013

BARC SEC: Ok green flags – lets go: how did your adventure with motorsport get started?Paul Eve: Started in 1996 in oval sport at Arena Essex, bangers was my choice and continued for the next 8yrs doing all formulas of banger racing including World final championships and various one off races... read more

Added: 23rd March 2013

BARC SEC: Ok green flags – lets go: how did your adventure with motorsport get started?Ken Angell: My father did grass track racing until I was six. When I was a teenager (15) I tried sidecar Motocross as a passenger. This was very dangerous as you often get thrown out. Next came... read more

Added: 8th March 2013

BARC SEC: Ok green flags – lets go: how did your adventure with motorsport get started?Bill Richards: Worked at BMC special tuning, it was a spin off from that...read more

Dominic Ryan, Ford Fiesta driver in Tin Tops, class T4, age 38.

Added: 27th February 2013

BARC SEC: Ok green flags – lets go: how did your adventure with motorsport get started?Dominic Ryan: I discovered motorsport for non-millionaires existed at a motorshow in London back in the 90's;
on a Caterham stand they were promoting a package of a kit car... read more